Where can I go dancing and drinking?

You’ll find many nighttime entertainment and popular nightspots at Weirs Beach. There are live bands, cocktails, great company, and so much more!

The Tower Hill Tavern has great bands on Friday and Saturday nights. The main stage is upstairs on the second floor; there is a smaller stage on the first floor. There is also an outdoor stage called the “Sucker Punch Saloon” that is used primarily during motorcycle events. Finally, there is a separate building attached to the Tavern called the “Sidecar Sports Bar” that surrounds the bar in the center with large-screen TVs. For a history of the Tavern building, click here.

The Big House features the largest dance floor in Weirs Beach. Formerly known as the Paradise Beach Club, the nightclub was greatly expanded in 2019. Featured are DJ’s every weekend and the occasional “global” act. Attached to the club is an outdoor stage called the “Wreck Yard” that features live bands throughout the summer season.

The Boardwalk Bar & Grill features solo entertainers on Friday and Saturday nights.

Dox on Winnipesaukee features solo entertainers on weekend afternoons.

The Looney Bin hosts bands during bike week, and sometimes features bands on Sunday afternoons.

The Fancy is a perennial local favorite. The small bar attracts quite a large crowd. (In its previous incarnations, it was a Mexican restaurant known as the Crazy Gringo, Rita’s, and Nothin’ Fancy). Occasional live entertainment.

Cheers at the Weirs, at #329 Lakeside Avenue, is the newest drinking spot in Weirs Beach. (Previously this location was the Clubhouse, before that, the Compass Cafe.)

At the Naswa Resort, you’ll feel like you’re in the tropics at the fantabulous Nazbar Beach Bar, where there are live bands on most summer weekend afternoons and various other entertainment during the season.

At the “Saloon Corner” at the intersection of Route 3 and Roller Coaster Road, you’ll find a saloon that caters primarily to the biker crowd. The High Octane Saloon is a very popular nightspot during Motorcycle Week, when there are bands, contests, and some really wild shows.

Visit Weirs Beach to be entertained every night as part of your vacation today!

Click on the button below for interesting stories about prohibition in Weirs Beach, as well as time-lapse photos of Weirs Beach at night in the 1950s.

Historical Postcards of Moonlight On Lake Winnipesaukee

“Not unfrequently an excursion is made by steamer to see the lake by moonlight. What can be more charming than, at the close of one of the long days of June, to see the full moon rise over the lower end of the lake just before the sun goes down? When the evening is fair and the water still, the glimmer of its brassy disk, just clearing the narrow belt of haze behind the mountains, may be seen in the long mellow wake that seems to sound the depths of the roseate or pale blue water, while the day yet glows along the gray hill slopes, and is brightening the young green of the tree-tops with touches of gold. Then when the sunlight is withdrawn, and the evening zephyrs have folded their wings, what delight to see the moon brighten, to notice how the mountains gradually flatten as the color is drained from them, to watch the islands with their marshalled rows of tall pines seem to stir as we pass them, as the light shimmers upon the water around their dark forms, and soon to see the lengthened image of the moon become a straight upright column of gold hanging in the sapphire deep!”

“Make half a dozen excursions on the lake at night, and see if, with different winds and temperatures, you find the moonlight twice alike. Notice how sometimes it is thin, bluish, and chilly, as if it had been skimmed in the upper ether before reaching our air. Sometimes you find it deathly white. But what a rare joy when, in some warm summer evening, we can sail on the lake while the moon is full in a double sense, and seems to pour out in larger liberality than usual from its fountains! Its beams do not rain in silver streams, but gush, as it were, from all the veins of the air. Every globule of the atmosphere exudes unctuous light. And its color is so charming — a delicate luminous cream! And how still the lake lies, to have its surface burnished by it into liquid acres of a faint golden splendor!” – Thomas Starr King, 1859

Historical postcards of “Moonlight on Lake Winnipesaukee” were sold with a vast variety of moonlit scenes. There are no telltales that the artwork actually depicted any specific part of the big Lake; rather, these were probably imagined, generic scenes, with water, islands, and mountains as the common denominator.